I was there in 1984. I was a little kid so I don't remember all the details, but I remember enough.

As it turns out, so does Pat Dye.

The former Auburn coach was in town on Tuesday night to speak to the Tallahassee Quarterback Club and he recalled in great detail the famed 1984 game between the Tigers and the Florida State Seminoles in Doak Campbell Stadium.

Before he spoke about his team's 42-41 win that night he asked the hundred or so attendees how many were at that game. A couple of dozen hands went up, including my own.

Because that's not a game you could forget if you witnessed it.

"It was a miracle win for us," the 77-year-old Dye told the fans gathered on Tuesday night.

Florida State was ranked No. 9 in the country that night. Auburn, which had begun the season ranked No. 1 but had lost Bo Jackson to a shoulder injury a couple of weeks before, was ranked 16th.

The Seminoles were loaded on offense, something Dye clearly remembered 33 years later.

He said he had a defensive back just walk to the sideline in the middle of the game with tears in his eyes. Even though no replacement had been sent on the field for him.

Dye asked him what he was doing and the cornerback responded, "I can't cover those guys."

"They had (Jesse) Hester and Hassan Jones and I told him, 'We don't have anybody that can cover those guys, now get your ass back out there,'" Dye said with a laugh.

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He also recalled having a real problem with the officiating crew that night. So much so that after a clipping penalty down near the FSU end zone he got back-to-back unsportsmanlike calls against him for arguing. When he calmed down and looked at the scoreboard, "It was first and 55," Dye said.

"So I asked my offensive coordinator what his best 1st and 55 play was," he joked.

Dye then pointed out that the poor officiating actually came in handy late in the game. During Auburn's game-winning TD drive in the final minute the officials didn't stop the clock after a first down. Twenty additional seconds ran off the clock before the Tigers scored their go-ahead TD with 48 seconds left.

Florida State only needed a field goal to win and on the game's final play the Seminoles actually completed a pass well into Auburn territory, but time ran out after the catch.

"Now if they had those 20 seconds back...," Dye said with a laugh.

It was an all-time great game in Doak Campbell Stadium and the former Auburn head coach obviously remembered it quite fondly. Just like he did the former coach he went up against seven times from 1983 to 1990.

"You know I interviewed for the job down here in 1975 when Coach (Bobby) Bowden came," Dye said. "You're lucky that you got the guy that you got."